Projects

The Dark

Project: The Dark

Fuel and Ovalhouse present

The Dark

Written by Nick MakohaDirected by Roy Alexander Weise

A new one-person live literature experience by award-winning poet Nick Makoha.

On a November evening in 1978 after eight years of civil war Nick Makoha and his mother fled their homeland of Uganda. Many people were displaced, thrown into unfamiliar environments and forced to find their new home in the world.

The Darkis Nick’s own poetic retelling of his experience and that of others affected by it - a series of voices echoing from varying states of darkness. What unfoldsis a story of those who find themselves exiled, with allegiances split between their birthplace and their new country.

Running time: tbc

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Nick Makoha (writer and performer) is a poet, playwright, performer, activist and mentor. Winner of the 2015 Brunel African Poetry Prize, his theatre projects include My Father and Other Superheroes, a one-person show he wrote and performed in the UK, Europe and the US and The Spalding Suite, a dance theatre show inspired by the UK’s basketball subculture, which mixed poetry, spoken word and storytelling with elements of live music and choreography and toured the UK in 2015.

Supported by Arts Council England and Ovalhouse as part of the FiRST BiTES series.

Welcome to Fuel's 2018 Season

We look to the future with new shows, projects and partnership for 2018On 23rd November at a special event to celebrate the re-opening of Barber Shop Chronicles at the National Theatre we announced some of the highlights of our 2018 Season. These include a new show by Rachael Ofori, an Austrailia and New Zeland tour of Inua Ellams' Barber Shop Chronicles and a new sound commission called Lock Her Up.

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